STRIKE RATP. Tuesday, February 7, 2023, metro, RER, bus and tram lines will most likely be disrupted due to a third day of interprofessional action against pension reform. What we know.
[Mis à jour le 3 février 2023 à 17h40] The inter-union of the RATP (CGT, UNSA, FO, CFE-CGC) called, in a press release “all the agents of the company to continue and amplify the mobilization by the strike and the demonstration on tuesday 7 february then the Saturday February 11 to say no to this reform” of pensions. Indeed, the RATP is in the front line of the mobilization because it sees its special pension scheme threatened.
Public transport users in the Ile-de-France region will have to organize themselves accordingly or telework because during the previous days of the strike, the majority of metro lines only ran partially and at peak times, although the tram and bus network had been relatively spared. Traffic forecasts for metros, RER, trams and buses will be communicated next Monday at the latest.
The agents of the Parisian transport network join the national and interprofessional mobilization of the tuesday 7 february at the call of the French inter-union, this date coinciding with the day after the presentation of the pension reform to the National Assembly. Indeed, the special pension scheme of some 40,000 RATP employees is seriously threatened. For their part, the CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail unions of the SNCF have already announced two consecutive strike days on February 7 and 8:
In a press release, the RATP intersyndicale called on “all the company’s agents to continue and amplify the mobilization through the strike and the demonstration on Tuesday February 7 and then on Saturday February 11 to say no to this reform” of pensions. The SNCF unions have not decided for this 4th day of interprofessional and national mobilization against the pension reform. Saturday, February 11 falls on the second weekend of the holidays schools in zone A and the first in zone B.
Several tools are available on the Web to find out about upcoming traffic disruptions at RATP. To know the traffic status of the metro, RER, bus, tram in real time, with the stations possibly closed today, consult theRATP traffic information. For the RER, you can also follow the Twitter accounts @RERA, @RERB, @RERC, @RERD Or @RERE. To monitor train traffic in real time, visit the Transilien.